How To Install games-toys on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install games-toys on Kali Linux.

What is games-toys

games-toys is:

This metapackage will install a collection of desktop toys and console programs that often modify the appearance of your computer and text in a humorous way.

There are three methods to install games-toys on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install games-toys Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install games-toys using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install games-toys

Install games-toys Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install games-toys using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install games-toys

Install games-toys Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install games-toys using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install games-toys

How To Uninstall games-toys on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the games-toys package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove games-toys

Uninstall games-toys And Its Dependencies

To uninstall games-toys and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove games-toys

Remove games-toys Configurations and Data

To remove games-toys configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge games-toys

Remove games-toys configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove games-toys configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge games-toys

Dependencies

games-toys have the following dependencies:

• games-tasks

References

• games-toys website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install games-toys package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.